Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-05-27
INDOOR FARMING.
now to Make Rural Life Agreeable and
Profitable to the Entire Family.i

How to Make Rural Life Agreeable and
Profitable to the Entire Family.j
When woman consents to take
charge of the household on farm she
Is either brave or ignorant. If brave,
healthy and vigorous, but not too am
bilious, she may be happy in the
secluded busy farm home, where the
labors are legion, trials many and
profits few, If reckoned in cash; but II
in pure air, pure water and freshest OF
food, they are many.
The first requisite for indoor farm
ing is health, that tho body may be
strong to endure and the mind sound
to plan, for much lies in the laying out
OF the days labor. Where there is no
mark set there is no goal won. Execu-
tive ability Is treasure all farmers
wives should possess. She who has It
not must work twice as hard and ac-
complish less than her fortunate sister.
The second requisite is economy,
true economy, that saves every thing,
even time. do not call il economy to
dry apples at four cents pound. It
will pay better to be taking runners oil
strawberry plants, decapitating rasp-
berry and blackberry vines or taking
drink to some thirsty plant or lots OF
things that will grow cash. A penny
saved Is a penny earned, and good
garden is the farmers savings bank.
Nor do | think Il economy to try and
do without help indoors. / do not
agree with him who said: "0ne woman
should do indoors for three men out. "
One can get along somehow, but It Is
at the cost of health and many things
that would be a profit as well as pleas
urc TO have done. 1t Is admitted
there is as much profit In poultry
as in any farm product, and
that woman, having moro patience
and sympathy, is likely to be
more successful than man in caring for
It. But poultry to be profitable must
be properly attended, and that atten-
ton is required when the housewife is
most needed indoors, II she has no as
sistant, so she who works unaided will
not be a poultry-raiser. Four hundred
chicks, or their equivalent in other
fowls raised, will pay good girl, and
leave nice little sum for pin money,
give time 10 do plain sewing and have
a little left for reading, etc.
The third requisite Is thoughtfulness
In each member Of the family Could
the miracle of old be wrought again
and the blind be made TO see, great
world be the rejoicing in every house
hold frharo ,rnuII e1,va,ra H.. a ,,,oel
Pile large enough TO be seem Theirs
would always be n meal-timc impor-
tant enough TO be observed. There
would always be one purse, open alike
to each. There would be sense OF
order that would require a hook for
coats. latch for doors, and somo
other place than the floor for discarded
newspaper wrappers, etc. Soft water
at the house would be as necessary as
water at the barn; convenient kitch-
en- as well as conveniently-arranged
stables, and desirable labor-saving
utensils In and out alike. There would
be gallantries grown easy by use and
pies as good as mother made.
In fact, there would be smiles on the
face Of the housekeeper, pleasant
words on her lips, cheerfulness In her
heart, and the acknowledged striving
that no rival should oatstrip her In in
door farming. Thus we have tho three
important elements, health, economy
and thoughtfulness; wealth and econo-
my the factors of finance; health and |
the factors Of happi-
ness. Possessing these we ask no
more for the mistress OF the farm
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